The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.