This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

The resilient spirit of this remote mining town burns bright in its eclectic memorabilia.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.