European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

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

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

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

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.