The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

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This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

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

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.