When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

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

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Profile of a sleeping person 4km long in 250m high cliffs.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.