It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

These unique rock formations were created during the Ice Age.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

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

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

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

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.

This decommissioned surface-to-surface missile resides outside the American Legion Post in Pennslyvania.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

Each step is a mere 4 inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."