Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.