Freeport, Texas
Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve
This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.
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Freeport, Texas
This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.
Little Rock, Arkansas
A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.
Lucedale, Mississippi
This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.
Clarksville, Texas
The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.
Rockford, Illinois
This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.
Rockford, Illinois
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.
Rockford, Illinois
This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.
Abita Springs, Louisiana
A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.
Cherokee, Alabama
A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.
Orrtanna, Pennsylvania
An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.
Imler, Pennsylvania
It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.
Leetonia, Ohio
Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.
Ponchatoula, Louisiana
One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.
Joiner, Arkansas
On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.
San Juan de la Vega, Mexico
There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.