Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.