Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.