Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.