The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A science teacher's dream.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

The unique building practices of the Batammariba reflect the community's deep reverence for and connection to the earth.

This subterranean town of over 50 dwellings lies thirty feet beneath the Earth's surface.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.