Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Built in 1981 in collaboration with Andy Warhol, this giant piece of pop art stands on the campus of Colorado State University.

Celebrating the cultural heritage of Kansas’s premier cowtown.

This bird statue was created to mark the site of a radio transmitter.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The world's largest rotating world.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

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.

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

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This Indianapolis landmark offers a secret panoramic view of the city. 

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.