Washington, D.C.
Riggs Bank
The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.
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Washington, D.C.
The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.
Green Gables, Prince Edward Island
Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Wawa, Ontario
This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.
Sudbury, Ontario
Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.
Superior, Wisconsin
A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.
L'Anse, Michigan
This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.
Seney, Michigan
"The Most Boring Road in the State."
Ishpeming, Michigan
A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
A large circus museum with summer performances.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Hayward, Wisconsin
143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Phillips, Wisconsin
An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.
Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin
A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Two Harbors, Minnesota
This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.
Two Harbors, Minnesota
This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.