An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

What better place to take a seat?

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

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

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.