Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

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

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

America's first public mental health facility.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.