Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.