Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Abstract marble carving for an 8.5-pound rock.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.