After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."