A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

World's largest Christmas store.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.