The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.