A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.