Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Sasqu(w)atch out!