This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

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.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.