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

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

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.