Kenosha, Wisconsin
Mars Cheese Castle
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
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Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
College Station, Texas
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
Washington, D.C.
Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.
Washington, D.C.
A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.
Toronto, Ontario
One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Houston, Texas
Beer lover's can-covered house.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
College Station, Texas
Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.
Kirksville, Missouri
Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.
Kirksville, Missouri
A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Saint Hedwig, Texas
A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.
Austin, Texas
Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Memphis, Tennessee
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.