Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

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.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.