This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

It might look like a doghouse, but this small structure was actually built to house a spirit from Maya mythology.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.