Places Edited by Ian Sanwald

Where hikers on the Tecumseh Trail can exchange a dirty sock for a free geode.

This whimsical park encourages its visitors and wildlife to roam on and around the various works of art.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.