A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

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.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.