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

Featuring one of the most complete and original collections of Presidential memorabilia, this is the site of the last front porch presidential campaigns.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

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

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.