Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The world's longest known cave system.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.