Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

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

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.