Newark, Ohio
Longaberger Basket Building
An office built to look like a giant basket.
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Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.
Kelleys Island, Ohio
Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
Logan, Ohio
Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.
New Haven, Connecticut
While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.
Monico, Wisconsin
Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.
Laona, Wisconsin
This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.
Clintonville, Wisconsin
A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."
Hayward, Wisconsin
143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.
Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.
Belleville, Wisconsin
Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.
Ladysmith, Wisconsin
A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.
Rudolph, Wisconsin
Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.
Shullsburg, Wisconsin
A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.
Lerna, Illinois
The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Rockford, Illinois
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.