Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

What better place to take a seat?