Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

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

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.