This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.