A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

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

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

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

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

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

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.