Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A science teacher's dream.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.