Tok, Alaska
Mukluk Land
This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."
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Tok, Alaska
This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
El Paso, Texas
This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.
El Paso, Texas
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
Puerto Palomas, Mexico
A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Quartzsite, Arizona
The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.
Quartzsite, Arizona
A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.
Quartzsite, Arizona
This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.
Felicity, California
Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.
Yuma, Arizona
Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.
Winterhaven, California
Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.
Fortuna Foothills, Arizona
An assortment of armored tanks and Howitzer cannons in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.
Casa Grande, Arizona
This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.
Coolidge, Arizona
Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.
Dateland, Arizona
Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.
Ajo, Arizona
A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Calipatria, California
Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.