Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.