This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.