A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This young woman's tombstone names her murderer, who is buried in the same cemetery.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.