Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

There are ongoing efforts to preserve this village, the best known work of Egyptian architect Hasan Fathy.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.