The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

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

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.