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A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Built in 1931, this small passageway is believed to be the first modern skyway.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

The last location where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played before their tragic deaths.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.