The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.