A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

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

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

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