One was an astronomer who spent his life chasing solar eclipses, the other helped make Emily Dickinson famous.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

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

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.