Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.