Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.