Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

Wander the locker-lined, terrazzo-floored halls and sleep in a former classroom at this unique inn.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.