Home to some of Indiana's last bison herds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

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

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.