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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

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

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

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

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

Locals dubbed this abandoned abode the "gingerbread house" because of its odd architecture.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

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

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.