The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

The oldest playground in America.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.