An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

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

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

The smallest country in the world.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

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

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.