The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

The world's largest Holstein cow.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.