Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.