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Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.