Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

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

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.