This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.