This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

The inconspicuous grave of the University of Illinois' first president is just steps from the main quadrangle.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.