This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The world's longest known cave system.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.