The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

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

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.