This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

The smallest country in the world.