This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.