A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

When this 160-year-old church was being built, a stonemason included a hidden homage to his late daughter.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

The man who wasn't there.

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.