This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

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

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

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.