A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

A limb from Indiana's largest sycamore tree on record.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

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

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

Saved by the community from destruction, this sign has become a national treasure.