The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.