This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A giant cement churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.