Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.