The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.