An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This massive sycamore tree has been labeled as one of the largest in the state.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.