A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This breathtaking national park is one of the best places to see the weird and wonderful giant anteater in the wild.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.