From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.