A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

One of the few authentic Japanese gardens in the state of Indiana and perhaps the most peaceful place in the city of Mishawaka.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

The remnants of Peoria's proud baseball past stand slightly abandoned, but not forgotten.

This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

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

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.