True to his word, George Swanson is buried in his white 1984 Corvette.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.