A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

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

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.