This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.