The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.