A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A monolith replica monument of Jean Ribault commemorating the landing of the French in the New World.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.