This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.