20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

The first hospital in the New World.