Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.