This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.