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.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.