This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

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

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.