Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

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

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.