Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

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

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

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

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.