Geneva, Illinois
Fabyan Villa Museum
This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.
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Geneva, Illinois
This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.
Batavia, Illinois
World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.
Chicago, Illinois
This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.
Scarbro, West Virginia
Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Kansasville, Wisconsin
The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.
Chicago, Illinois
A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.
Hollandale, Wisconsin
One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Belleville, Wisconsin
Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.
London, England
Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Charleston, South Carolina
Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.
Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.
Brookfield, Illinois
It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.