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Wall Drug

Wall, South Dakota

Wall Drug

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Independence Rock Sign

Casper, Wyoming

Independence Rock

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Salt Lake City Public Library

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City Public Library

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Statue of the sculptor himself, Thomas Battersby Child, Jr.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Gilgal Sculpture Garden

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Ayyyyy.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Bronze Fonz

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

SafeHouse

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

SafeHouse

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee Art Museum

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

City Museum

St. Louis, Missouri

City Museum

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Haymarket Square

Chicago, Illinois

Haymarket Square

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The Collider Detector at Fermilab.

Batavia, Illinois

Fermilab

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

Fabyan Windmill February 2021

Batavia, Illinois

Fabyan Windmill

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

One of nine gardens

Wilmette, Illinois

Bahá'í Temple

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

American Science & Surplus
Permanently Closed

Park Ridge, Illinois

American Science & Surplus

A science teacher's dream.

Mars Cheese Castle

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Mars Cheese Castle

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

Roadside park with marker

Peshtigo, Wisconsin

45th Parallel Marker

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

aka Da Yooper Tourist Trap, aptly named

Ishpeming, Michigan

Da Yoopers Tourist Trap

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Ragged Ass Road

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Ragged Ass Road

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

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