Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

These boots are made for selfies.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.