Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.