Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

A big museum full of little worlds.

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

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Indiana's shrine to the sport that has become a hallmark of their culture.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.