A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

One of the first schools in the U.S. to admit students without regard to race or gender.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

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

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

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

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

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

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.