In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.