This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

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

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.