North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The museum within the Kom-Ombo Temple complex houses mummified crocodiles and mummified crocodile eggs.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

In 1703, French settlers in what is now Mobile celebrated the first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

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

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The only international border marker within the United States.

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.