A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

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

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A big museum full of little worlds.