This monument honors the band's impromptu performance at Cadillac highschool's homecoming decades ago.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

The last Americana on Route 66.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

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

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.