While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

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.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.