This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.