The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.