An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

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.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."