A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.