One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.