A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.