A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.