This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.