The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

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

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

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

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

A small rural town hides Indiana's tallest waterfall.

A hidden canyon deep in the woods of Indiana offers visitors a spectacular experience in nature.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.