Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The world's longest known cave system.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.