At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

A beautifully restored 19th-century house that’s possibly haunted.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

Though it's no longer a functioning train depot, this castle-like structure is an important piece of Oklahoma history.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

A real small-town gym became the unforgettable home court of the Hickory Huskers in “Hoosiers.”

This small plaza encourages people diagnosed with cancer to never give up hope.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.