This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A spectacular tribute to statesman and philanthropist Andrew Mellon.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.