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Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

The longest of the four remaining covered bridges in Missouri.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

See the world's biggest spool of thread, along with the largest collection of sewing machines.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

The headquarters of the prestigious World Food Prize celebrates the heroes in the fight against hunger, has no cafeteria.

This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.