The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

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.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A land of debatable treasure.

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.

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.