A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.