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This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

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

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.