The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.