Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

What is the Thing?

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.