Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

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

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.