Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

With more than 2,000 pieces, this is world's largest collection of artwork inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper.'

The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.