Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.