Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.