A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The oldest playground in America.