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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

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