An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

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

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

Memorial dedicated to four citizens killed during a shooting spree prompted by a routine traffic stop.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.