Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.