Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.