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

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.