Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Three historic trains run on a half-mile track that features a tunnel.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

The only remaining hotel on the 1860s Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada is being restored.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.