Walker, Louisiana
LIGO Livingston Observatory
World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.
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Walker, Louisiana
World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.
Kentwood, Louisiana
A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.
Sandy Hook, Mississippi
One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.
Foxworth, Mississippi
A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.
Little Rock, Arkansas
A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.
North Little Rock, Arkansas
The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.
Carthage, Arkansas
Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.
Gurdon, Arkansas
The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.
Texarkana, Texas
$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Bismarck, North Dakota
Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.
Lemmon, South Dakota
An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.
Bowman, North Dakota
This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.
Regent, North Dakota
One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.
Tuttle, North Dakota
Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.
Medora, North Dakota
Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.
Strasburg, North Dakota
The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.
Lemmon, South Dakota
This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.
Murdo, South Dakota
The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.
Fort Pierre, South Dakota
A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.
Lincoln, Nebraska
An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.
Lincoln, Nebraska
This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.
Lincoln, Nebraska
A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.