The Colony, Texas
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
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The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Denton, Texas
A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.
Topeka, Kansas
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.
Brandon, Iowa
The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.
Dyersville, Iowa
A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.
Mount Vernon, Iowa
A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.
Dallas, Texas
A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.
Garden City, Kansas
The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.
Mullinville, Kansas
Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.
Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.