Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.

A museum dedicated to the history of electric interurban transit near the home of the first electric trolley system in the United States.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

Originally built circa 13-14th century, this “snail well” was a resourceful means to draw water in a region where the soil was mostly loam.

A quirky, larger than life sculpture on an old bunker pays tribute to an eccentric carnival entertainer.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

This mangled and twisted wreckage left by the side of a Mexican road was no accident, but a planned crash in the name of science and safety.

This aged paving stone, marked by a maiden's foot imprint and the tales of her plunge from the cathedral tower, serves as a memorial to a tragic local legend.

Acrosticism and palindromes on this randomly placed stone.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A public art project to commemorate a tumultuous period in Derby's history.

Dedicated to a local cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and became an international symbol of peace.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

This one-of-its-kind shipyard brings the 12th-century Viking Age back to life.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

A little-known, yet charming glacial lagoon.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.