A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.