These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A 30-foot-tall goat tower in central Illinois is home to a herd of Swiss ungulates.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

In a forgotten Central Valley industrial park lies the busiest railroad junction in California.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

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

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

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

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.