Garden Grove, California
Christ Cathedral (Crystal Cathedral)
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
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Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Cerritos, California
A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
Jackson, Mississippi
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Gibsland, Louisiana
The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.
Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Chattanooga, Tennessee
More than five miles of underground passageways.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Cave City, Kentucky
One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.
Cave City, Kentucky
A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.
Dixon, California
This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.
Davis, California
Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.
Davis, California
This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.
Woodland, California
Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.
Davis, California
Outsider art or homage to aliens?
Davis, California
Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.
Sacramento, California
A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.
Sacramento, California
Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.
Sacramento, California
An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.
Sacramento, California
A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.
West Sacramento, California
I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.
Sacramento, California
The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.