Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.