A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The former home of the "Manassa Mauler" is now a museum dedicated to his legendary boxing career.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

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

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

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