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The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.