A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A small section of native wilderness on a university campus

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

"They died with their boots on."

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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.