This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

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

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.