This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.