Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.