Lead Hill, Arkansas
Ozark Medieval Fortress
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
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Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
New York, New York
An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.
Harrison, Nebraska
Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.
Royal, Nebraska
When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.
Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.
Windsor, Vermont
This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.
Hancock, Vermont
An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.
Stowe, Vermont
The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.
Monticello, Illinois
The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
Chicago, Illinois
This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.
Geneva, Illinois
A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
Chicago, Illinois
What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.
West Lafayette, Indiana
Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.
Indianapolis, Indiana
The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.
Center Point, Indiana
Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!
Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Medora, North Dakota
The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.