One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.