The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.