A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

This six-building complex is the home of the world's largest steer.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

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

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.