This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The World's Largest Bull.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.