A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.