Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This space rock fragment is one of the only meteors to have ever struck a human.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.