The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

One of New York's most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

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