The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

The Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.