A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.