A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The world's largest rotating world.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.