Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Enjoy classic musicals with a home-cooked meal at this former staple of American social life.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

One of Indiana's only natural sandstone arches is nestled between resort ruins and an old Boy Scouts camp.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

This colorful monument commemorates a little-known story from the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.