An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

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