Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.