Kernersville, North Carolina
Körner’s Folly
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Places I've been
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Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Detroit, Michigan
Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.
Hamtramck, Michigan
A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Hell, Michigan
Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.
South Lyon, Michigan
This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.
South Lyon, Michigan
This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.
Oregon City, Oregon
Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.
Leavenworth, Washington
One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Natchez, Mississippi
A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.