During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

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

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

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

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

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.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.