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

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

The location where the American Revolution ended.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.