Apache Junction, Arizona
The Superstition Mountain Museum
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
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Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Coolidge, Arizona
Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.
Casa Grande, Arizona
Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)
Tucson, Arizona
Miniature art that tells an enormous story.
Benson, Arizona
What is the Thing?
Deming, New Mexico
In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.
Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Odessa, Texas
A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.
Austin, Texas
The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Cuba, Missouri
The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.
Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Paris, Arkansas
A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.
Spiro, Oklahoma
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.