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This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

Discover the story of a man, a dog, and a plan to turn a decommissioned Atlas F Missile Base into an underground resort.

A museum celebrating a couple who loved to travel the world and to bring its treasures back to Montezuma, Kansas.

This early pioneer landmark is one of the oldest buildings in this part of Kansas and one of the few Dutch mills ever built in the state.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.