This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

This school building was an extravagant show of wealth for a boomtown that mostly faded in the following decade.

A desert journey through atomic history.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.