This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.