When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The last remaining Shaker community still practices a uniquely communal and utopian version of Christianity.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

The largest collection of woven silk tapestries in the world.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Marking the location of the secret headquarters for the Counterintelligence Corps in WWII.

This historic house was the birthplace and childhood home of the 35th president of the United States.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

A park to honor all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, and Emporia's status as the founding city of Veterans Day.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

In the aftermath of the murder of six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a memorial was constructed to remember all the teachers, administrators and staff who lost their lives.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.