The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A unique outdoor timepiece at a "clothing-optional" resort.

The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

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

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.