Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

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

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.