Study the Alien etchings in this fountain while you refill your water bottle.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.