Shirley, Illinois
Funk Gem and Mineral Museum
Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.
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Shirley, Illinois
Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.
Lincoln, Illinois
Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.
Ona, Florida
Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.
St. Louis, Missouri
A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.
St. Louis, Missouri
This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.
East St. Louis, Illinois
Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.
Longyearbyen, Norway
The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.
Sarasota, Florida
This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Britt, Iowa
An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.
Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa
An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.
Waterloo, Iowa
This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.
Gladbrook, Iowa
A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.
Elk Horn, Iowa
In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.
Kewanee, Illinois
The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.
Shelburne, Vermont
A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.