When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

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

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

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

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

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