A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.