A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."