Dodgeville, Wisconsin
C-97 Stratofreighter at the Don Q Inn
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mitchell Park Domes
A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.
Middleton, Wisconsin
National Mustard Museum
More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pabst Mansion
A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Mars Cheese Castle
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
House on the Rock
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
Cave of the Mounds
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Rye, New Hampshire
Sunken Forests of Rye
Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.
Permanently Closed
Orlando, Florida
Discovery Island
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Chicago, Illinois
Green Mill Jazz Club
A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.
Sequoia National Park, California
General Sherman
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Asheville, North Carolina
Biltmore Estate's Secret Passages
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Flagler Beach, Florida
Bulow Plantation Ruins
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.
Washington, D.C.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
Waxahachie, Texas
Munster Mansion
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Leggett, California
Chandelier Tree
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Cats of Jackson Square
By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.
Key West, Florida
Robert the Doll
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Napoleon House
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's Old Burying Grounds
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Ponce de León Hotel
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Sliding Rock
Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?
