A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

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

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.