What is the Thing?

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

A nine-hole golf course in Pennsylvania hasn't charged a greens fee since its founding in 1914.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The venerated body of a 12th century saint is celebrated each year with the 'Race of the Candles.'

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

An eerie illusion of a nun is said to haunt this cathedral’s Baroque-style bell tower.

This former 17th-century church now houses a university's public library along with several mural masterworks.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

This grand yet little-visited tomb seems almost carved into the hill it sits on.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.