This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A symbol of Texas pride.

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.