The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

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

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.