Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

Storage units with a wartime past.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

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

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.