A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This aluminum airplane pays homage to the Flying Tigers of World War II.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

This relic of transportation history still stands in this Indiana city.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.