A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.