An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

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

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.