This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.