The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

Because there's no place like home.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

What is the Thing?

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

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

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.