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A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

One car at a time please.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

"May the force be with you always."

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.