The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

See six states, pickled freaks, rocks, and antiques.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

The site of a minor battle might have been forgotten if not for one participant’s famous family and the death of a respected warrior.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.