This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.