Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

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

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

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

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.