No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

A combination of Peshwa and British Gothic Revival architecture.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.