The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

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

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

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

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

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

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.