This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.