This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.