A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.