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Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

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

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.