The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

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

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."