A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.