The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

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

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The world's longest known cave system.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.