This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.