For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.