A local prank turned town icon.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

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

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.