This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the "Reign of Terror."

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

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.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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