This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.