This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.