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A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

What is the Thing?

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.