Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

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

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.