The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.