This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.