The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

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

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

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

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.