Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

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

Murals made with millions of colorful stones adorn the abandoned building.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.