Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.