This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

A giant roll of mints marks the birthplace of one of America's most famous candy brands.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

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

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.