The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

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

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

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.