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A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

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

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.