Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

This wooden troll marks the starting point for Detroit Lakes' troll scavenger hunt.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

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

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

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

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

This colorful monument commemorates a little-known story from the life of Abraham Lincoln.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.