The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

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

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.