The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.