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

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

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

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

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

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

Claude Monet immortalized this medieval bridge in two of his paintings.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.