What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

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

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

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Population: 1.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Storage units with a wartime past.