Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

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

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.