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

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

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.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.