Baker, California
Alien Fresh Jerky
Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.
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Baker, California
Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.
Beatty, Nevada
A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.
Furnace Creek, California
This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.
Inyo County, California
A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Beatty, Nevada
The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.
Nye County, Nevada
Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Kerhonkson, New York
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.
Potsdam, New York
Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.
Burlington, Vermont
Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.
Burlington, Vermont
This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.
Burlington, Vermont
Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.
South Burlington, Vermont
A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.
Batavia, New York
A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.
Mexico, New York
A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.
Newport, Rhode Island
The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Newport, Rhode Island
Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.
Newport, Rhode Island
Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.
Gila Bend, Arizona
A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.
Boiceville, New York
Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.