One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Along with his smaller donkey pal, he guards the museum’s exhibits and memorabilia.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

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

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

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.