Little Rock, Arkansas
White Water Tavern
This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.
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Little Rock, Arkansas
This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.
Senoia, Georgia
This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Elk Horn, Iowa
In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
East St. Louis, Illinois
An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Chicago, Illinois
Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.
Chicago, Illinois
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.
Zanesville, Ohio
A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.
St. Louis, Missouri
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
Springfield, Illinois
The history of funerals and funerary customs.
Gary, Indiana
This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.
Chesterton, Indiana
The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.
Elkhart, Indiana
A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Cairo, Illinois
The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
New Haven, West Virginia
This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Celina, Ohio
A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.
Greenville, Ohio
A small town museum celebrates the history of the Ohio county that produced Annie Oakley and other famous figures.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Alexandria, Indiana
Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.