This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

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

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

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

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."