Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.