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This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.