On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Oldest building in California still in use.