Along a coast that sees the annual migration of humpback whales, a geological formation that takes the shape of a whale’s tail.

Lankaster is a research and conservation center specializing in orchids and tropical plants, located near the city of Cartago.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This roadside prairie Statue of Liberty replica is one of the foremost examples of the Boy Scouts of America's "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

How did the front of a supersonic jet make its way to a display case in a Kansas City yard?

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

An artistically engineered dam designed to honor the relationship between humankind and nature.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.