The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

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

A replica that won't float away.

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

The first Protestant church in Arizona and only Gothic Revival style adobe church in the world.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.