Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Here be dragons.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.