Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

This is one really big nut.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

What is the Thing?

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Rusting dinosaurs frolic at the entrance to this roadside "snake sanctuary."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.