A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

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

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A holy well believed to have healing powers.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.