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

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

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

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

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

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.