Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

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

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

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

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.