A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

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

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.