Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

A renowned Civil War veteran, this Bald eagle now presides over the Wisconsin State Assembly.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

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

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

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

From burial ground bocce ball court.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

100 years later, they're still down there.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.