This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.