A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

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.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A stone face watches over the river.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

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.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.