Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

This historic aviation building is now a museum owned and operated by Disney.