The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

A stark reminder of the huge nuclear weapons plant that once stood on the site and its effect on the surrounding area.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

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

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.