This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

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

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

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