Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.