One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

The Real LegoLand.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.