The man who wasn't there.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A restored schoolhouse was once a vital part of the Black mill workers community in Arkansas.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

Home of mutant livestock.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.