The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.