The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.

Concerned residents saved this historic house and garden from demolition.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.