A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.

This tiny site in Iowa, part of a patchwork national wildlife refuge, is home to ancient flora and fauna.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!