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The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Inside the center are Italian works of art and a replica model of St. Peter's Basilica.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.