The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

The World's Largest Bull.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.