An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

Definitely not a clown bar.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

This little-used trail winds through the highest mountain range in central Nevada with sections around 10,000 feet.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.