A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.