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

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

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

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.