This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

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

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

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

What better place to take a seat?

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.