Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

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

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

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

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

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

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

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.