The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.