This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.