Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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