Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.