An unusual statue in Wisconsin of the first daily comic strip character.

A historic ballroom host to famous performers from the big band era to 1980s rock.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The man who wasn't there.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

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

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

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