Las Vegas, Nevada
'Bliss Dance'
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Dallas, Texas
This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.
Pioneertown, California
A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
College Station, Texas
Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.
College Station, Texas
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Lampasas, Texas
A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.
Schulenburg, Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.
Smithville, Texas
A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.