A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

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

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.