A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.