This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

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

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

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.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.