An aviation relic that made coast-to-coast travel possible.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future.