Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.