A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.