Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.