An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.