A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.