While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

A eclectic collection of military memorabilia.

A Winnebago Tribe collection featuring arrowheads, artwork, and a mysterious rock carving.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.