This park is home to around 500 bird species.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.