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

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.