A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."