Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An urban laboratory.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

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

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.