Firminy, France
Saint-Pierre of Firminy
This church looks more like a spaceship than a house of worship.
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Firminy, France
This church looks more like a spaceship than a house of worship.
Hersey, Michigan
The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Bronx, New York
The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.
Denver, Colorado
A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Molson, Washington
This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.
Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Arlee, Montana
This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.
Polson, Montana
With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."
Cottonwood, Idaho
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Glover, Vermont
This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.