The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.