A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.