These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The magic's in the hole!

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.