One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

At the western edge of Palm Springs, a rugged desert canyon trail leads to a waterfall at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

Mexican food and folk art.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

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

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

A scenic hike in the High Sierra that ends at an old gold mine.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.