This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

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

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.