Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

The freeway that never was.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

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