Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

One car at a time please.

A forest wonderland caused by Burlington, Vermont's aggressive southwestern winds.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

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

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.