The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.