A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The world's longest known cave system.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.