Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

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

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

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

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.