A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

A statue commemorating a 16-year old girl's nighttime ride to raise a militia against attacking British troops.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.