Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.