Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

What is the Thing?

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

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

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.