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

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

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.