The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.