Places Lost Dolly Wants to Go

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.