The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

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

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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

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

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