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A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.