This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.