The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Featuring one of the most complete and original collections of Presidential memorabilia, this is the site of the last front porch presidential campaigns.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.