A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.