A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

Housing the history of a small Ohio town that is known to some as the pottery capital of the United States.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

A smaller model of the Da Vinci sculpture that took 500 years to come to life.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue