One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.