It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.