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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

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

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.