Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

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

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.