This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.