Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.