This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.

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

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

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

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

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

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.