Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.