Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

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

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.