Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.