A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

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

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

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

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

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.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.