An office built to look like a giant basket.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

This local museum documents centuries of history along the Mississippi, from mound builders to massive quakes.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

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

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.