St. Joseph, Missouri
Jesse James Home Museum
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
Bushell Park, Saskatchewan
A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the middle of the Canadian prairie.
Timmins, Ontario
It's 2 billion years old!
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Aladdin, Wyoming
The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.
Spearfish, South Dakota
This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Keystone, South Dakota
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Conata, South Dakota
A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.
Tucson, Arizona
One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Peoria, Illinois
The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.
Evansville, Indiana
The fourth-oldest baseball stadium in the United States is in a league of its own.
Vandalia, Illinois
Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.
Effingham, Illinois
Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.
North Webster, Indiana
Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.
Chicago, Illinois
Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.
Winslow, Arizona
The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.
Wheaton, Illinois
Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.
Lombard, Illinois
People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.
St. Augustine, Florida
The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.
Ormond Beach, Florida
A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.