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

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A sprawling museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

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

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.