A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.