The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.