Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

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

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

Said to be haunted, this tower was constructed by a sugar importer as a gift to his wife.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

Yo, Adrian!

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.