A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.