An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Mine your own precious stones.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.