Town not known for anything except its strange name.

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

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

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

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.