This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

This former Indiana quarry has been transformed into a park and SCUBA site where divers can explore the drowned mining equipment.

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!