Walcott, Iowa
Iowa 80 Truck Stop
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
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Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Gardner, Illinois
This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.
Wilmington, Illinois
This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.
Cedarburg, Wisconsin
The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Verona, Wisconsin
Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Atlanta, Georgia
A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.
Winnetka, Illinois
Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.