Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.