Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This is one really big nut.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."