Places Edited by Darrell Powers

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

These boots are made for selfies.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.