Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Mexican food and folk art.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

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

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