One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

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

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.