When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

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

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.