The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.