How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.