An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

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

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.