This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

Collection of scores of race cars from the 1900s to recent lovingly maintained and displayed.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Built some 700 years ago, this Taíno ceremonial site features ball courts, petroglyphs, and evidence of ancient astronomy practices.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.