Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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