Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

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

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.