This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

As the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, these halls contain everything from dinosaur bones to biological samples collected by Lewis and Clark.

A 5,000-pound fiberglass channel catfish perches on the banks of the Red River, occasionally taking a swim when spring floodwaters rise.

How a friendly mining-school rivalry, two adventurous students, and 400 tons of limestone created a Platteville landmark.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

Once part of a chain of over 80 restaurants that merged with another Mexican-American chain, it has been reborn in one of its original locations.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This unusual public park, which contains an eclectic mix of industrial remains from the 19th century, originated as an archaeological dig in the 1980s.

One of only 3 vertical lift bridges on the Mississippi it still operates despite its apparent condition

This statue of Snoopy on vacation is just outside the kids area at Minneapolis Saint Paul International was one of a series of 101 Snoopy statues created in 2000.

Take a walk on Minnesota’s last historic covered bridge.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

A century-old landmark that once employed Sinclair Lewis and is still known for its ghost stories.