This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

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 collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.