The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The elevator that makes it possible to fly American flags in bulk over the U.S. Capitol

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.