Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.

Thousands of Matchbox cars spanning generations call this New Jersey barn home.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.