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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

This recipe is set in stone.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

An outdoor installation of 20 vintage signs that once hung in front of businesses throughout town.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.