A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

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

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

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Alongside this Memphis trail are several sculptures that show trail-goers how to relax.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.