This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

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

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

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