Places Edited by apbreuhan

There is no other town or city in the world with the name Swayzee

Jack White's record store is the only place in the world that records live shows direct-to-acetate.

This modest structure is where noted musician and the Band drummer Levon Helm grew up.

This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

Inside the center are Italian works of art and a replica model of St. Peter's Basilica.

The last vestige of a once substantial orchard and farm in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

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.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.