A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

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

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

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

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.