A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

An out of this world experience.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

An urban laboratory.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.