The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.