The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

A century-old landmark that once employed Sinclair Lewis and is still known for its ghost stories.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

A lonely house representing railroad history tells the stories of those who rode the rails.

North Dakota's smallest store only has tiny items.

In an alley behind a Fargo bar, you can roleplay as Mario while interacting with a popular street mural.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.