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

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

Commercial aircraft storage facility, where you can see a TWA 747.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

This semi-permanent cathedral was built of cardboard, wood, and steel after Christchurch's 2011 earthquake.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.