A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.