Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

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