Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.