The childhood home of a Tampa sports legend now houses 135 years of baseball memorabilia.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

The final resting place of a baseball legend who was better known for his behavior off the field.

An Americana dreamscape.

The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

This unusual roadside attraction filled with handcrafted signage is home to a unique church.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.