A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.