A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

This convenience store-turned-brewpub serves up inventive Indian cuisine and a wide selection of beers.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

A 17-foot-tall cutout of the Texas-born actor stands alongside the highway.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.