This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.