Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.