One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the "Reign of Terror."

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A highway marker that honors a former spy plane pilot and local hero.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.