Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.