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

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

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

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.