The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

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

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

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

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

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

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

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

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

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

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.