An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

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

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.