This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

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

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Honorable ranks graduating from the prestigious Army War College work hard to maintain their high standards of honor and erase those who don't.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This softball diamond has a culture all its own.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.