Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Eastern Canada's ocean playground.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

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.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.