The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.