A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

The fourth-oldest baseball stadium in the United States is in a league of its own.

Examine the impact of the horse on Great Plains culture through exhibits on ranching, rodeo, and the Native American way of life.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.