L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

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

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A century-old wooden walkway where artists and free spirits have built a funky, countercultural main street.

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

Wisconsin’s oldest Chinese restaurant, still glowing beneath its historic neon sign.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

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

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

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

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

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A tiny 1857 chapel sits on top of a secluded, forested hill.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.