One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

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

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

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

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .