At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.