The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

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

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.