This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.