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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.