A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

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

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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