An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

What better place to take a seat?