The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

The world's longest known cave system.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.