This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Everything good comes from Uranus

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

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

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.