Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

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

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.