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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A lonely house representing railroad history tells the stories of those who rode the rails.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.