A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Designed to not only to represent the history of the local community but also, the future.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.