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The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Alongside this Memphis trail are several sculptures that show trail-goers how to relax.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.