A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.