This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

A restored schoolhouse was once a vital part of the Black mill workers community in Arkansas.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."