Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.