A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.