The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.