This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.