The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.