The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

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

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Evidence from a brutal 1880s murder is on display at this former infirmary house.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.