Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

Known as "The Dome" this is the world's largest open air geodesic dome.

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.

The final resting place of one of the most iconic musicians of the '80s.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.