This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.