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Real events too strange to have made the textbook.
Greenwood, MS
The grave at Little Zion is the burial location most widely accepted for blues musician Robert Johnson. Because Johnson has multiple memorial/grave claimant sites in Mississippi, OddWay should identify this one specifically rather than presenting all three as equally certain.
Quito, MS
A headstone erected at Payne Chapel marks another location once claimed as Robert Johnson's burial place. It is useful as part of the unusual three-grave story surrounding Johnson, but should not be described as the accepted burial site.
Morgan City, MS
A Robert Johnson memorial/cenotaph at Mount Zion, one of several places historically proposed as his burial site. Current scholarship generally favors Little Zion, so this stop should be labeled as a memorial and former grave claimant rather than the confirmed grave.
Friendship, WI
A sandstone outcrop rises abruptly above central Wisconsin and preserves Indigenous rock art along its base. A stairway also climbs the formation seasonally for long views, but visitors must stay off protected petroglyph surfaces.
Emery, UT
This dense cliff panel mixes human figures, animals and abstract imagery so unusual that specialists still debate whether its dominant style is Fremont or older Barrier Canyon. A short public hike reaches the overlook.
Fairbury, NE
Rock Creek was an Oregon-California Trail and Pony Express station, but it is best known for the 1861 confrontation in which James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok killed David McCanles and others. Reconstructed buildings and trail ruts give the famous gunfight a physical setting.
Fountain City, WI
In 1995, a massive boulder broke from the bluff and crashed directly into this house. Rather than remove the rock, the owners preserved the damage as a tiny museum, leaving the enormous stone lodged inside the building where it came to rest.
Graniteville, VT
Rock of Ages operates one of the world's largest deep-hole dimension-granite quarries, where sheer gray walls descend hundreds of feet into water. Seasonal tours overlook the active quarry, and the visitor center even includes an outdoor granite bowling lane.
Erin, TN
An old quarry opening has attracted explorers because of its dramatic man-made cavern appearance, but current access is posted and should not be treated as public. OddWay should route only to lawful exterior viewpoints and explicitly discourage entry or trespassing.
Piney Flats, TN
This preserved homestead served as the territorial capital of the Southwest Territory in the 1790s. Living-history interpretation and original structures make the site a rare surviving administrative center from before Tennessee became a state.
Warwick, RI
Rocky Point State Park preserves scattered remnants of the amusement park that operated here for generations before closing in the 1990s. Among the most evocative remains are concrete ruins associated with the old water-tank structure, separate from the World's Fair arch included in Rhode Island Part 1. The ruins sit within the public state park and should be viewed without climbing unstable remnants.
Rocky Springs, MS
The cemetery of the vanished Rocky Springs community, with old stones remaining after most of the town itself disappeared. Treat it as a historic cemetery: visit during lawful access hours, keep to paths and do not disturb graves.
Rocky Springs, MS
The remains of a once-prosperous settlement abandoned after disease, erosion, war and economic decline. The NPS site preserves traces of the town, interpretive features and paths through a landscape that has largely returned to woods.
Rocky Springs, MS
A surviving 1800s church standing near the vanished community of Rocky Springs. Its isolated setting beside a ghost-town landscape gives travelers a rare physical anchor to a town that otherwise almost disappeared.
Rodney, MS
A surviving 1830s church anchors the remains of Rodney, once an important Mississippi River town that declined after the river shifted away. Roads can be rough and surrounding property may be private; this is a ghost-town driving stop, not permission to enter abandoned structures. Coordinate source: https://www.hmdb.org/
Providence, RI
Roger Williams and his wife Mary were reinterred beneath the large monument at Prospect Terrace in 1939. Their earlier burial became famous because an apple-tree root grew through the grave in a human-like shape, the same root preserved by the Rhode Island Historical Society. This stop completes that story at Williams's present resting place.
Providence, RI
When Roger Williams's remains were exhumed in 1860, workers found an apple-tree root growing through the old grave in a shape interpreted as resembling a human body. The preserved "root that ate Roger Williams" belongs to the Rhode Island Historical Society and has been displayed at the John Brown House Museum. As of September 2026 the museum lists the root as temporarily off-view for exhibit maintenance, so check before visiting specifically for it.
Rohwer, AR
The cemetery and memorial preserve the most visible remains of the Rohwer Japanese American incarceration camp. Monuments and headstones stand amid farmland where thousands were confined during World War II.
Rolling Fork, MS
A prehistoric mound site embedded in the modern Rolling Fork landscape, preserving part of the Delta's much older human history. Use the public marker/viewing area and respect any adjacent private property.
Rome, GA
A nineteenth-century water tower converted into the city's iconic clocktower rises above downtown from Neely Hill. Seasonal tours allow visitors inside and up the tower, where the enormous clock mechanism and panoramic view make it more unusual than its skyline silhouette suggests.
Lake City, SC
Lake City honors hometown astronaut Ronald McNair, who died aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, with a dedicated memorial park. The site connects a small South Carolina community directly to one of the defining tragedies of the American space program.
Snoqualmie, WA
This former railroad bridge, now part of a public trail, was used for the unsettling scene in which Ronette Pulaski emerges after her ordeal in 'Twin Peaks.' The modern trail setting is far calmer than its screen appearance.
Gardiner, MT
The monumental stone arch at Yellowstone’s North Entrance, dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 and still spanning the historic gateway road.
Warm Springs, GA
Franklin D. Roosevelt's modest Georgia retreat preserves the setting where he sought relief from polio and where he died in 1945. As of September 2026, the main historic-house area is undergoing renovation while the museum and portions of the grounds remain available, so check the state site's current access notice before visiting.
