In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This institution pays tribute to an associate justice who protected civil rights and prosecuted Nazis.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

This massive 286,200-tile mosaic was the largest mural of its kind in the United States and is an early example of computer-generated art.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

The only thing these street signs will help you navigate is your imagination.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.