Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

The magic's in the hole!

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.