Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

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