This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

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

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.