Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.