A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

The world's longest known cave system.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

A local prank turned town icon.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

America's smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.