Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.

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

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

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.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.