A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

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

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

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

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.