This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

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

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

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.