Places SemiruralYeti Wants to Go

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This museum of miniature displays provides a journey through early American history.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

The world's longest known cave system.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.