The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Three courses accompanied by Christian rock.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.