A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

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

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.