This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

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

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.