Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

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

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

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

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

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

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.