An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.