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The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.