This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.