This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

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

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.