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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Over 200 people were buried here with only a small stone to mark their final resting place.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

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

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.