Hundreds of tree trunks and Welwitschia flowers populate this living fossil haven.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.