This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

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

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.