A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.