A 50-foot-tall replica of the infamous lamp from 'A Christmas Story' illuminates this small town.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Sample original Hatfield family moonshine at this distillery in southern West Virginia.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

The childhood home of a Hollywood legend.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.