Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.