The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.