Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

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

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.