A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

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

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

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

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

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Indiana's shrine to the sport that has become a hallmark of their culture.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.