The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

This turn of the century jail once held Charles Manson.

The humble Hoosier roots of a famed Broadway composer.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

An opulent testament to the boom-and-bust history of industry in north central Indiana.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

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

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

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

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

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