These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

What is the Thing?

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.