Whether you're looking at the bizarre House on the Rock in Wisconsin,

It is to my mind one of the most bizarre, amazing wild creations in the entire United States.

Or hearing organ music being played on stalagtites at a cave in Virginia.

You look at it and think, how did he think to do that?

But I'm so glad that he did.

America certainly has some unusual sights.

Coming up, the folks from Atlas Obscura take us to a few of America's strangest attractions.

We'll also take a closer look at the far-flung territories that kind of are and kind of aren't part of the United States.

Of course, these are populated places.

They have people and cultures and too often those people are overlooked by the U.S. government.

And hear what it's like to be an American on a guided tour of North Korea.

They don't like you.

They've been told that you're bad and but you know hopefully this is the way that those barriers

get broken down is the travel.

It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

The Sun never sets on the American Empire. Well, almost anyway. Coming up on today's travel with Rick

Steve's, Doug Mack tells us when he learned about the farthest corners of the USA,

where old glory flies next to palm trees and the territory the real fantasy world she was shown on a holiday in North Korea. There are plenty of other

weird places on this planet that don't come with so much political intrigue.

Dylan Thuris co-founded the Atlas Obscura website and it features thousands of such entries

to the most curious hidden wonders and marvels all around the world.

Editor Ella Morton got to pick 700 of them to feature in their new book, which has shot to the top of the

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