This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.