Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

A replica that won't float away.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.