These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.