The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

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

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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