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148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

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

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.