A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.