A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.