Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.