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Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

A large collection of motorbikes with some impressive gems.

The longest structure of its kind ever built in Michigan.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A unique outdoor timepiece at a "clothing-optional" resort.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.