It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

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

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.