This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.