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

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.