The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.