This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.