This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.