Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The final resting place of two unknown soldiers.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.