Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.