Independence, Missouri
Leila's Hair Museum
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
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Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Lindsborg, Kansas
Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!
Royalton, Vermont
An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.
Moose, Wyoming
This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.
Fairbanks, Alaska
A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.
Fairbanks, Alaska
The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Logan, Utah
Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Payson, Utah
A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.
North Ogden, Utah
Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.
Ogden, Utah
Jurassic Park—A Still Life.
Ogden, Utah
Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.
Seattle, Washington
A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.
New York, New York
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
Anaheim, California
The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.
Anaheim, California
The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.
Boise, Idaho
These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.
Spokane, Washington
This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.