$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.