This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

The largest collection of political commercials in the world.

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.