Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

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

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.