Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.

A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A big museum full of little worlds.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

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