For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

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

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.