This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

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

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.