A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.