Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

A tribute to the successful role of the Keflavik Naval Air Station in the defense of Iceland, United States and NATO Alliance.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

A lonely house representing railroad history tells the stories of those who rode the rails.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

A railroad lift bridge that was only lifted once and became obsolete before construction was finished.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

Each step is a mere 4 inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.