A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.