A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

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

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

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

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

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

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

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

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