An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.

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

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.