Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

This ancient subterranean megalopolis is known for the hot oil traps that were installed above each of its entrances.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.