A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.