A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

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

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.