For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

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

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

This spooky road cut through a mound of ancient coral might be haunted by a witch.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.