This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.