Places birresus Wants to Go

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

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

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

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

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

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

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.