Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

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

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.