Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

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

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

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

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

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

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.