A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The Real LegoLand.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.