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An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

In addition to over 80 vehicles on display covering over 100 years of motorcycle history, this free museum focuses on the people who ride and love these bikes.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."