Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

See six states, pickled freaks, rocks, and antiques.

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

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.