Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

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

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

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This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.