Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

One of the few beardless depictions of Lincoln, George Grey Barnard's 1917 statue was denounced by many—including Lincoln's own son.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

This alleyway was named to honor the memory of a beloved local dog.

Test your mettle against the hottest hot chicken in Nashville.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.