One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

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

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

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

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The world's longest known cave system.

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.