This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

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

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Salaguti's live-in museum: a fortress against criticism and consumer art.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.