Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.