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The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.