Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

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

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

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

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.