This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

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

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.