The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

A bridge commemorating the actor's legacy and his Terryville roots.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.