Scales Mound, Illinois
Charles Mound
This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.
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Scales Mound, Illinois
This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.
Paradise, Michigan
This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
West Alexandria, Ohio
This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.
Greenfield, Indiana
Take a glimpse into a pioneer-era homestead at the birthplace and home of Indiana's "Children's Poet."
Centerville, Indiana
A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.
Richmond, Indiana
This Indiana walk of fame honors music legends with record-shaped plaques in the pavement.
Gallipolis, Ohio
The failure of one component toppled this entire bridge during rush hour.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.
West Des Moines, Iowa
A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.
Sturgeon, Missouri
A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.
Savannah, Georgia
This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.
Savannah, Georgia
More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."
Savannah, Georgia
An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.
Savannah, Georgia
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
Savannah, Georgia
A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.
Savannah, Georgia
One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.