The largest protected conservation area in the Ozarks—a region that stretches into northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.