The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

This stone incorrectly marks the 35th parallel, causing some territorial kerfuffles.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Experience the life of an 1800's lumberjack at this interactive museum that is only accessible by railroad.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

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

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.