The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.