This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.