The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.