The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.