The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

How did the front of a supersonic jet make its way to a display case in a Kansas City yard?

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

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

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.