The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Life-size statues of characters from 'The Wizard of Oz' stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.