A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

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

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.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

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

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.