Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.