Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.