Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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