A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.