An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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

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

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Bizarre Cavern.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.