According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

The site where the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army was killed is now a memorial.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

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

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects