Columbia, Missouri
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Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
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Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Joplin, Missouri
A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
West Terre Haute, Indiana
A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.
West Baden Springs, Indiana
A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.
Washington, New Hampshire
A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Terre Haute, Indiana
Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.
Anderson, Indiana
A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.
St. Louis, Missouri
A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.
Hamilton, Ohio
A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.
Greenville, Illinois
Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.
Marshfield, Wisconsin
"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.
Neillsville, Wisconsin
The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Newton Abbot, England
This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.
Dartmoor National Park, England
A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.