World's largest Christmas store.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

This towering bee statue is a tribute to Ontario's first meadery and a century-old honey producer.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

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

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A unique outdoor timepiece at a "clothing-optional" resort.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.