A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.