This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.