A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.