The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.