One of the first schools in the U.S. to admit students without regard to race or gender.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

The headquarters of the prestigious World Food Prize celebrates the heroes in the fight against hunger, has no cafeteria.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

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

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.