An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

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

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.