This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.