A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Steel remnants of a bridge make up a unique sculpture along the banks of the Illinois River.

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

On the edge of grassland in northeastern Colorado, these rock formations are some of the few remnants of a high plain that has eroded away over millions of years.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.