An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.