Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

These modest Midwestern formations are kin to Niagara Falls' impressive cliffs, more than 600 miles away.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An urban laboratory.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

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

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.