Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The world's largest rotating world.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.