A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

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

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

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

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.