Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

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

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

This mural changes every few years.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.