A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

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

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.