Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.