A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Locals dubbed this abandoned abode the "gingerbread house" because of its odd architecture.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.