It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.