One of New York's most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

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

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.