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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.