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The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Colorado's oldest church is now home to the largest handmade adobe labyrinth in the world.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

The richest man in Mexico built the largest aquarium in Latin America 26 meters underground

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

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

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.