The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

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

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

A town pays homage to its namesake.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

A likeness of Da Vinci's mysterious painting smiles at passersby from the side of a barn.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.