An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.