A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.