A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

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

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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