Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Enjoy classic musicals with a home-cooked meal at this former staple of American social life.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.