Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.