A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.