At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.