Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

On a trail in Portugal's Barão de São João National Forest, a pile of faces look up at hikers from the forest floor.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Mexican food and folk art.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A flat-topped butte that makes a constant backdrop for Western art.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.